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    • Aug 8, 1932
    Mel Tillis is born in Pahokee, Florida. After finding success by writing Bobby Bare's "Detroit City," Patsy Cline's "So Wrong" and Webb Pierce's "I Ain't Never," among others, he turns his stutter into a comedic twist and develops a successful career as an artist, earning a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Mar 17, 1940
    Doris Duckworth is born in Plant City, Florida. She will marry country singer/songwriter Mel Tillis and become mother to Pam Tillis and songwriter Sonny Tillis
    Apr 2, 1941
    Mel Tillis begins third grade at a country school in Turkey Creek, Florida
    Dec 25, 1942
    Mel Tillis' family gets a Majestic Radio for Christmas. Tillis begins listening regularly to the Grand Ole Opry
    Jan 24, 1957
    Mel Tillis has his first recording session for Columbia Records. It yields his first single, "Honky Tonk Song"
    Feb 4, 1957
    Columbia releases Mel Tillis' first single, "Honky Tonk Song"
    Jul 24, 1957
    Pam Tillis is born in Plant City, Florida. The daughter of country singer Mel Tillis, she fashions a career of her own with a series of hits in the 1990s, winning the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist in 1994 and joining the Grand Ole Opry in 2000
    May 8, 1958
    Mel Tillis records "A Violet And A Rose." The song becomes a hit for Little Jimmy Dickens in 1962
    Jun 2, 1958
    Columbia releases Mel Tillis' "A Violet And A Rose." Little Jimmy Dickens earns a hit with the song four years later
    Oct 27, 1958
    Kitty Wells records "Mommy For A Day" during the afternoon at Nashville's Bradley Film & Recording Studio. She also records "All The Time," a Mel Tillis song destined to become a hit for Jack Greene
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